Another word for difficult
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Adjective
Not easy to do, achieve, or master
- Located on high or higher ground:
- Going up a hill or slope:
- Marked by difficulty or strong resistance; laborious:
- Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Physically hardy; rugged:
- Having greater than ordinary height:
- Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty:
- Having a specified height:
- Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave:
- Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern:
- Intended for sophisticated people.
- Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
- Hard-working; industrious.
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Demanding great effort or labor; difficult:
- Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous:
- Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
See also:Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength
- Having considerable weight; heavy.
- Burdensome; oppressive:
- Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
- Causing strain, hardship, or distress.
- Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Physically hardy; rugged:
- Burdensome; wearing:
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Marked by or requiring strict adherence to rigorous standards or high principles:
- Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
- Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth:
- Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
- Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
- Harsh, severe, or demanding:
- Very unpleasant or inclement:
- Exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; tyrannical.
- Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
- Hot and humid; sweltering:
- Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
- Entailing more liabilities than benefits or imposing significant obligations.
- Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
- Hard-working; industrious.
- Having relatively great weight:
- Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- Large, as in number or quantity:
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Arousing fear, dread, or alarm:
- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
- Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
- Requiring immediate action; pressing:
- Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
- Making severe demands; rigorous:
- Requiring great care, effort, or attention:
- Requiring or showing effort.
- Requiring much effort or attention:
- Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
- Weighing much or hard to carry; heavy.
- Causing hardship or distress.
- Demanding great exertion; arduous and exhausting.
- Demanding great effort or labor; difficult:
- Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous:
- Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
See also:Causing difficulty, trouble, or discomfort
- Characterized by or causing trouble or anxiety.
- Not accessible; hard to reach.
- Not suited to one's comfort, purpose, or needs:
- Inopportune:
- Inconvenient or uncomfortable, as by not affording sufficient space.
See also:Given to acting in opposition to others
- Deviating from what is desired, expected, or required, especially in being disobedient or in gratifying one's own inclinations:
- Difficult or impossible to manage, control, or keep in order:
- Going somewhere not intended or desired:
- Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
- Characterized by or resulting from willful opposition or resistance to what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
- Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous.
- Incapable of having existence or of occurring.
- Not capable of being accomplished:
- Unacceptable; intolerable:
- Stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate.
- Opposed, as in character or purpose:
- Opposite in direction or position:
- Moving in the opposite direction at a fixed interval:
- Perverse; inimical.
- Given to stopping and refusing to go on:
- Difficult to operate or start:
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Another word for difficult
Modifier
Hard to achieve
- Having the property of adhering or sticking to a surface; adhesive.
- Covered with an adhesive agent.
- Warm and humid; muggy:
- Covered with hair or hairlike projections:
- Consisting of or resembling hair:
- Fraught with difficulties; hazardous:
- Very large:
- Calling for the strength traditionally attributed to a man:
- Having relatively great weight:
- Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- Large, as in number or quantity:
- Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Physically hardy; rugged:
- Sensitive to tickling.
- Easily offended or upset; touchy.
- Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Given to or characterized by trickery.
- Requiring caution or skill:
- Not giving way to pressure; hard or inflexible:
- Incapable of being changed; unalterable:
- Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute:
- Full of or tending to cause stress.
- Physically or mentally demanding to the point of exhaustion:
- Very great in size, extent, or amount:
- Of great scope or consequence:
- Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
- Moving or progressing very slowly.
- Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
- Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation:
- Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate:
- Difficult to understand, analyze, or solve for having many interconnected elements.
- Full of, characterized by, or motivated by ambition.
- Greatly desirous; eager:
- Requiring or showing much effort; challenging:
- Arousing fear, dread, or alarm:
- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
- Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
- Burdensome; wearing:
- Requiring the full application of one's abilities, attention, or resources:
- Of or relating to Sisyphus.
- Endlessly laborious or futile:
- Located on high or higher ground:
- Going up a hill or slope:
- Marked by difficulty or strong resistance; laborious:
- Of immense size, extent, or quantity.
- Of exceedingly great scope or nature:
- Of unusual size, power, or difficulty.
- Of or relating to Hercules.
- Resembling Hercules.
- Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
- Harsh, severe, or demanding:
- Very unpleasant or inclement:
- Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
- Entailing more liabilities than benefits or imposing significant obligations.
- Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.
- Demanding great exertion; arduous and exhausting.
- Weighing much or hard to carry; heavy.
- Causing hardship or distress.
- Characterized by or causing trouble or anxiety.
- Causing bother; troublesome.
- Of or relating to the Titans.
- Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal:
- Of enormous scope, power, or influence:
- Causing strain, hardship, or distress.
- Produced or done with effort:
- Lacking natural ease; strained:
- Full of or giving pain:
- Causing mental anguish or suffering:
- Distressing or embarrassing:
- Having relatively great weight:
- Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- Large, as in number or quantity:
- Difficult to bend or fold:
- Not moving or operating easily or freely; resistant:
- Lacking ease or comfort of movement; not limber:
- Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.
- Making severe demands; rigorous:
- Requiring great care, effort, or attention:
- Requiring much effort or attention:
- Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
- Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion:
- Vigorously active; energetic or zealous:
- Demanding great effort or labor; difficult:
- Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous:
- Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
- Hard-working; industrious.
Antonyms:Hard to understand
- (idiomatic) More complex or confusing than one can understand; beyond one’s comprehension.
- (idiomatic) More than one can handle; too much (especially in over one’s head).
- (idiomatic, sports) Performing at a level greatly superior to one's usual level of performance.
- Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Physically hardy; rugged:
- Having a sharp inclination; precipitous.
- At a rapid or precipitous rate:
- Excessive; stiff:
- Not known; unfamiliar:
- Not identified, ascertained, or established:
- Not well known or widely known:
- Not easily understood; abstruse or obscure:
- Concealed; hidden.
- Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully:
- So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable:
- Of or relating to metaphysics.
- Based on speculative or abstract reasoning.
- Immaterial or supernatural:
- Open to two or more interpretations and often intended to conceal the truth.
- Characterized by a mixture of opposing elements and therefore questionable or uncertain:
- Open to more than one interpretation:
- Doubtful or uncertain:
- Impossible to account for; inexplicable:
- Free from accountability; not responsible:
- Simple past tense and past participle of conceal.
- Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
- Difficult or impossible to measure:
- Not solvable.
- Provably not solvable.
- Impossible to answer or refute; incontrovertible:
- Difficult or impossible to explain or account for.
- Difficult to understand or interpret; impenetrable:
- Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; incomprehensible:
- Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible:
- Impossible to know or fathom:
- Having no limits; boundless.
- of, having the nature of, or expressing a paradox or paradoxes
- fond of using paradoxes
- seemingly full of contradictions
- Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural or magical influences, agencies, or occurrences:
- Available only to the initiate; secret or mysterious:
- Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable:
- Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling:
- Arousing fear, dread, or alarm:
- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
- Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
- Relating to, resembling, or constituting a labyrinth:
- Refusing to change one's mind or course of action despite pressure to do so; unyielding or resolute.
- Characterized by a refusal to change one's mind or course of action; dogged or persistent:
- Difficult to treat or deal with; resistant to treatment or effort:
- Extending far downward below a surface:
- Extending far inward from an outer surface:
- Extending far backward from front to rear:
- Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent:
- Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated:
- Characterized by digressions; rambling.
- Not graceful; ungainly.
- Not dexterous; clumsy.
- Clumsily or unskillfully performed:
- Without a path or trail.
- (figuratively) unexplored
- Difficult or impossible to explain or account for.
- Not running on tracks or rails.
- Unmarked by trails or paths.
- Not fastened, restrained, or contained:
- Not taut, fixed, or rigid:
- Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered:
- Often or habitually roaming; wandering.
- Extended over an irregular area; sprawling:
- Lengthy and digressive:
- Present participle of baffle.
- puzzling and frustrating
- that vexes
- Having, showing, or requiring great insight or understanding:
- Deeply felt or held; intense:
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching:
- Complicated and difficult to unravel.
- Of, relating to, or stemming from mysticism or immediate understanding of spiritual matters, especially when experienced as direct communion with God:
- Symbolic or allegorical, especially with regard to spirituality:
- Awe-inspiring or mysterious:
- Not clearly defined; not explicit.
- Intended for or understood by only a small group, especially one with specialized knowledge or interests:
- Relating to or being a small group with specialized knowledge or interests:
- Not known by or suitable for the public; private:
- Present participle of confound.
- The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
- Lacking or having very little light:
- Lacking brightness:
- Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black:
- Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
- Present participle of bewilder.
- bewilderment
- So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive:
- Difficult to understand; abstruse:
- Able to make fine distinctions: